I couldn't stop drinking over a lifetime of hard-drinking because, although part of me wanted to stop, something else inside me definitely did not. Once I realized how to deal with that Other Thing in me - it was was my addictive voice, the part of me that kept saying "it's fine; there is not a problem; I can have just one drink" - I began to make progress. It really helped to look at that voice as something complete separate from me. ("IT is not ME"). It sounds a little crazy but its a legitimate way of looking at it; it turns out that some people have understood how to isolate and subjugate that Addictive/Compulsive inside of them for thousands of years.
Last edited by Dee74; 09-05-2015 at 05:32 AM.